Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Lots of things go bump in the night. When I was a kid, any sound coming out of the dark would send my imagination running wild (to be honest it still does). For years I would sleep under the covers, thinking it would hide me...

Not all relationships are sweet and beautifully packaged like a heart shaped box of chocolates. Some are messy, like chocolates left out in the sun, smeared all over the pavement like you know what. Keep reading...

My internet has been down for the last two weeks. It’s a long and frustrating story in which I spent my Christmas and New Year’s holiday with tech support. Needless to say there will be a slight delay with my B is for Books posts....

I get an obscene amount of spam offering me everything from a good time to magical pills that would enhance body parts I don’t even have. Recently I found buried among the junk an email from Owlkids Books that knocked my sock off. It was...

Over the summer I picked up Richard Scarry’s Look and Learn Library, a four-volume collection of his work. I’ll need a whole year to showcase everything. A whole year dedicated to Richard Scarry sounds like a perfect way to honor an illustrator that entertained and...

As seniors in high school we got to go camping for a couple of days as a class field trip. It was an attempt to recreate the trips taken by the Group of Seven, a group of Canadian landscape painters who spent days in the...

Last week my father went to visit (check up) on my sister in San Francisco and since Bella (the family dog) gets along with very few people, I was asked to babysit. I think babysit would be the most appropriate word considering that Bella is...